Thought I would jump in with my twopennorth so that the usual suspects can shoot me down.

These days we are in the antipodes for the whole of December, January & February and very nice it is too thank you.

When in the UK we get to the Wilsons club at the Welly in Wolviston as often as we can taking our friend and Whitby resident Mollie Grove who recently had a ninetieth birthday do at the club - one of four official birthdays!

We have got into the habit of attending the Fife Singing Weekend in Falkland and then John & Many Waltham's weekend down in rural Dorset - the two were only five days apart this year.

There is a thing we are involved in with others in Yorkshire in late June but that is a secret. Judy and I also run a dance weekend in early July - because we can.

Later in July we head off to Cullerlie near Aberdeen for the singing weekend there.

August means a week at Whitby Folk Week and after that we would normally have gone to John & Katie Howson's do in Stowmarket but they retired last year and the event seems to have disappeared despite brave words from someone who was suppose to continue the event.

We both have lots of other interests as well as folk and so in the words of the proverbial - how did we ever find time to go to work?

All the events we regularly attend are well run and meet our needs.

We also occasionally attend other events - the latest of which was the Doc Rowe exhibition at Rochdale and what a joy that was.